Google LLC is a multinational technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. In AI, Google developed the Transformer architecture, the Gemini series of LLMs, and DeepMind's AlphaFold protein structure predictor.
Circle published the official USDC specification for the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), enabling AI agents to pay via HTTP 402 and EIP-3009. Separately, ERC-8183 'Agentic Commerce' by Virtuals Proto…
Yait_aichain's Model Registry provides a single abstraction layer that maps logical model names to provider-specific configurations, allowing developers to reference models by registry keys like "open…
SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion in a funding round at an $11 billion valuation, signaling strong investor demand for alternatives to Nvidia in AI hardware. The Palo Alto-based startup, which build…
The AI inference market is bifurcating into cheap commodity models and premium frontier systems, with GPT-4-class costs dropping from $20 to $0.40 per million tokens since 2022 while newer models like…
AI inference costs have plummeted for commodity models, with GPT-4-class output dropping from $20 to $0.40 per million tokens since 2022, while frontier model prices have surged, creating a split mark…
A developer evaluated Google's Gemma model for local AI inference in African tech contexts, finding it practical and cost-effective for startups with limited hardware. The developer built a minimal Go…
Google scrapped the base architecture for Gemini 3.5 Pro and rebuilt it from scratch, delaying the launch to a July 17 internal target after identifying performance gaps in mathematical reasoning, SVG…
Anthropic is in advanced talks to lease the entire 16-story building at 330 Hudson Street in Manhattan, securing 465,000 square feet to double its New York City workforce to 1,000 employees by 2026. T…
A blogger identifies three classes of AI users—Victims, Zombies, and Grifters—in a critical post about the negative impacts of generative AI on society, including forced adoption, deskilling, and expl…
Meta launched its Muse Image AI model with Instagram integration, automatically opting public profiles into allowing others to generate AI images using their likeness by tagging their username. Users …
Maine librarians are offering services to help patrons disable AI features on their devices, driven by concerns over privacy, misinformation, and corporate data collection. Led by Bangor librarian Han…
Anthropic is leasing an entire 16-story office tower in Manhattan's Hudson Square, a 30-fold increase in space, while simultaneously restricting access to its Claude Fable 5 model due to insufficient …
Addy Osmani, former Google Chrome DevRel now at Anthropic, released agent-skills, a repository of 24 workflow skills designed to prevent AI coding agents from skipping critical engineering steps like …
A developer released a React component that replicates the chat input styles of ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI agents, allowing developers to drop ready-made agent-input UIs …
A study from Oxford and Potsdam universities found that AI writing tools can inject political bias into user drafts, altering meanings on sensitive topics like abortion and climate change. The researc…
Runway opened its first office in Paris with a 10-person team and a $30 million investment, positioning the hub as a research center for world models and physical AI. The move reflects the company's s…
A developer replaced Claude Code with open-source coding agent OpenCode for two weeks, finding it 78% slower but keeping it due to its model-agnostic design that unifies local and hosted AI models. Th…
Nebula Security published exploit code for GhostLock, a 15-year-old Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2026-43499) that allows local privilege escalation and container escape. The flaw, introduced in Lin…
Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinky, published a summary of 35 papers on harness engineering for recursive self-improvement (RSI), arguing that harness improvements will remain essential even as core mod…
Google's Pixel 11 lineup will cost $100 more across all models, starting at $899, with the 128GB entry-level tier eliminated, according to leaks. The company blames AI-driven component shortages for t…